Graham Cluley, among many others, has reported on the data breach at AdultFriendFinder which reveals email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, postal codes, IP addresses and sexual preferences of users. (Millions of AdultFriendFinder members exposed after hack.)
There were fifteen (15) spreadsheets on the Dark Web from the breach but sans payment information. Rumor (source: Web search) has it that the hacker wants $17,000 for the entire database with payment information.
I am updating Email Rule #1 to be:
Rule #1:
Never write/record/enter/say in front of witnesses, anything that you would not want repeated to a federal grand jury or published on the front page of the New York Times.
How difficult is that?
If you had an AdultFriendFinder’s account, or can’t remember if you do or don’t, check out: ‘;–have i been pwned?, which as of today, has 183,019,526 pwned accounts, including those from AdultFriendFinder.
Before you venture out again, unsupervised, have someone purchase several cash cards, preferably in another city, buy a burner cellphone, obtain several bogus but not easily tracked to you email addresses, and use Astoria (or the most recent Tor client), and that is at a minimum.